The Spectator has published a full list of those Conservative MPs who’ve pledged to vote against the ‘Plan B’ measures announced earlier this week. There are currently 60, but the number is growing by the day. If the Government is going to get the measures through the House of Commons, it will need Labour votes. Here is an extract:
When the Health Secretary Sajid Javid introduced the measures in the Commons this week, he was greeted with jeers and calls for him to “resign” from his own party members. There is now a growing backbench rebellion against the Government’s proposals, with several MPs publicly denouncing the winter restrictions, which they feel are a step too far in a society protected by what Boris Johnson once called the “huge wall of immunity” from vaccines.
The full list is below.
- Steve Baker
- Ben Bradley
- Brendan Clarke-Smith
- Graham Brady
- Philip Davies
- Richard Drax
- Simon Jupp
- Stephen McPartland
- John Redwood
- Greg Smith
- Dehenna Davison
- Marcus Fysh
- Gary Sambrook
- Pauline Latham
- William Wragg
- Geoffrey Clifton-Brown
- Iain Duncan Smith
- Christopher Chope
- Craig Tracey
- Robert Syms
- Anthony Mangnall
- Greg Clark
- Esther McVey
- Liam Fox
- David Davis
- Mark Jenkinson
- Alicia Kearns
- Mark Harper
- Darren Henry
- Steve Brine
- Craig Mackinlay
- Simon Fell
- Andrew Bowie
- David Warburton
- Siobhan Baillie
- David Jones
- Tom Randall
- Ben Spencer
- Andrew Rosindell
- Charles Walker
- Douglas Ross
- Karl McCartney
- Anne Marie Morris
- Johnny Mercer
- Tom Tugendhat
- Richard Fuller
- Giles Watling
- Desmond Swayne
- Andrew Bridgen
- Andrew Lewer
- Christian Wakeford
- Adam Afriyie
- Julian Sturdy
- Peter Bone
- Chris Grayling
- Chris Green
- Tim Loughton
- Tracey Crouch
- Miriam Cates
- Jackie Doyle-Price
If you would like to write to any of these MPs to express your support for their stand, or write to your own MP and urge him/her to vote against the measures, you can find out the name of your MP and how to contact them here. Han Solo Steve Baker has asked opponents of vaccine passports to convey their gratitude to MPs for taking this stand.
Stop Press: Steve Baker has written a short piece for the Critic in which he says: “I believe every MP will remember forever how they voted on this issue.”
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